Reproductive Health Issues

Reproductive health issues in rural Western Kenya

BACKGROUND We describe reproductive health issues among pregnant women in a rural area of Kenya with a high coverage of insecticide treated nets (ITNs) and high prevalence of HIV (15%). METHODS We conducted a community-based cross-sectional survey among rural pregnant women in western Kenya. A medical, obstetric and reproductive history was obtained. Blood was obtained for a malaria smear and...

Reproductive Health Issues and Challenges for Health System Strengthening

‘Quality of care’ was the central conceptual thread in the concept of reproductive health. This was in clear deviation from the previous concepts that were target oriented and were engrained in the health programmes known by various names in the previous era: like Safe mother hood programme, or Child Survival and Safe Motherhood programme etc. This conceptual change had occurred due to understa...

Reproductive Health Issues and Challenges for Health System Strengthening

‘Quality of care’ was the central conceptual thread in the concept of reproductive health. This was in clear deviation from the previous concepts that were target oriented and were engrained in the health programmes known by various names in the previous era: like Safe mother hood programme, or Child Survival and Safe Motherhood programme etc. This conceptual change had occurred due to understa...

knowledge on reproductive health issues among the unmarried adolescent girls

objective: to assess the level of knowledge of the adolescent girls regarding reproductive health issues. materials and methods: a cross sectional descriptive type of study was carried out among 150 unmarried adolescent girls of vashantek slum in dhaka city by face to face interview using a semistructured questionnaire from january to june 2008. results: the mean age of the respondents were 16....

ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Reducing stigma in reproductive health